WLM Loudness Meter

[banjo71]

I’ve been starting to master and had to get a meter to stay in range in LUFS. Waves had the WLM on sale for $69, usually $399. Couldn’t pass that up. But even with a meter, it’s dang hard to get a mix up to -1 dB and maintain a -15 LUFS level. I think a lot of that fine tuning is in the mixes, whether you can maintain healthy dynamic range or not for the mastering process.

But anyway, just wanted to note that maybe I should quit mixing/mastering and stick to playing my banjo lol.


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[simon.a.billington]

I don’t think the goal is to stick strictly to the loudness level. Music still needs to breath, ebb and flow, sound soft in parts louder in others. If it’s a rock track you could probably expect something more sustained, but even they have louder moments.

So I think you need to look at the overall loudness, I believe that’s called Integrated Loudness or even Long Term Loudness.

Considering that, one way of achieving that is bringing up the lower level sounds. This can be achieved with some judicial use of parallel compression of even upward compression. There’s not too many compressors that can achieve the latter though. I know the Elysia Mpressor can as well as Neutron’s compressor. Waves also has their MaxxVolume and MV2 plugins that can achieve something similar as well as help tame your peaks.

There’s probably other’s though.